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JAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice
Synonyms:
Jan; January
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Jan" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Jan"):
Inauguration Day; January 20 (the day designated for inauguration of the United States President)
January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day (the first day of the year)
Martin Luther King Day; Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed on the Monday closest to January 15)
Tet (the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th)
January 20; Saint Agnes's Eve (a Christian holy day)
January 1; Solemnity of Mary ((Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation)
Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; January 6; Three Kings' Day; Twelfth day (twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus)
Twelfth night (eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5)
Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)
mid-January (the middle part of January)
Holonyms ("Jan" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
It was discovered on Jan. 15, 2002.
(Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4, NASA)
Dr Jan Lyczakowski, the paper’s first author, said, “It is the molecular architecture of wood that determines its strength, but until now we didn’t know the precise molecular arrangement of cylindrical structures called macrofibrils in the wood cells.###!!!###
(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)
Goldman-Mellor and colleagues sought to understand patterns of suicide and other mortality in the year after emergency department presentation — and patient characteristics associated with suicide death — by linking emergency department patient records from California residents who presented to a licensed emergency department between Jan. 1, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2011, with California mortality data.
(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)
The area is approximately equivalent to the size of São Paulo city, according to data released today (Jan. 17) by the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation and the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE).
(Brazil: Atlantic Forest regeneration in nine states, Agência Brasil)
The team observed the three largest particle-ejection events on Jan. 6 and 19, and Feb. 11, and concluded that the events originated from different locations on Bennu's surface.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
The OSIRIS-REx team first observed a particle-ejection event in images captured by the spacecraft's navigation cameras taken on Jan. 6, just a week after the spacecraft entered its first orbit around Bennu.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
